Standard Modern Greek and Greek-Cypriot Dialect in Kindergarten Classroom Interaction: Teachers' and Learners' Language Attitudes and Language Use

Autor/inn/en	Sophocleous, Andry; Wilks, Clarissa
Titel	Standard Modern Greek and Greek-Cypriot Dialect in Kindergarten Classroom Interaction: Teachers' and Learners' Language Attitudes and Language Use
Quelle	In: Language, Culture and Curriculum, 23 (2010) 1, S.51-69 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0790-8318
Schlagwörter	Language Minorities; Language Variation; Language Attitudes; Standard Spoken Usage; Foreign Countries; Kindergarten; Greek; Language Usage; Observation; Classroom Environment; Teacher Attitudes; Interviews; Teacher Student Relationship; Peer Relationship; Cyprus + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachminderheit; Sprachenvielfalt; Sprachverhalten; Gesprochene Sprache; Umgangssprache; Ausland; Grieche; Griechisch; Sprachgebrauch; Beobachtung; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Lehrerverhalten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Peer-Beziehungen; Zypern
Abstract	This study investigates language use and language attitudes in state kindergarten education in Cyprus. Kindergarten education is the primary setting where Greek-Cypriots learn to employ the standard variety on a systematic basis. Consequently, the context of kindergarten education is a principal setting for examining language attitudes and language variation. Specifically, this study examines whether teachers' ambiguities regarding language use exist in kindergarten education as in other levels of formal education and whether at the age of kindergarten education children's language attitudes towards the standard and non-standard varieties begin to develop. The data gathered via class observations and teacher interviews suggest that teacher ambiguities do seem to exist in relation to the use of the two varieties in the classroom and children do distinguish between the two language varieties, as they employ these on different speaking occasions in the classroom with their peers and teachers. (Contains 5 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10